Fire Damages Lw Apartment

LAKE WORTH — A fire at an apartment building Saturday morning caused an estimated $35,000 in damage, but no one was injured because the family was out shopping, firefighters reported.

The fire, first reported at 11:06 a.m., began in the living room of an apartment in the 600 block of North Federal Highway and spread to an adjoining apartment used as on office by the apartment house owner, Maria Sansalone, firefighters reported.

Sansalone and her children were out shopping. The fire was reported by a tenant and extinguished within nine minutes, said Lake Worth Fire Capt. Dennis Fick.